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Author Boss, Jack

Title Musical Currents from the Left Coast
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

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Description 1 online resource (334 pages)
Contents Current trends in the theories of rhythm and meter. Tracing the path of metric focus in four Chopin etudes / Brent Yorgason ; Hypermeter and performers' choices in recordings of J.S. Bach's Toccata in F, BWV 540/1 / Leon W. Couch III ; Revolving variations via rhythm / Susan de Ghizé ; Construing rhythmic spaces in diasporic African music / Christopher Stover -- The analysis of music of the 20th and 21st centuries. En'light'ening the musical idea: text and musical structure in Webern's Das Augenlicht / Darin Hoskisson ; Pitch and duration contours in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Super-formula for Licht / Mustafa Bor ; Analyzing tonal embellishment in post-tonal music / Peter Silberman ; Transpositional combination and the analysis of form in George Crumb's Lux aeterna / Brian Moseley -- Analysis of late 19th and early 20th century tonal music. Rhythmic Conflict in Janáček / Zdenek Skoumal ; Flat primary triads, harmonic refraction, and the harmonic idiom of Shostakovich and Prokofiev / Gabe Fankhauser ; Transformational-sixth chords in the early music of Richard Strauss / Stuart A. Woronecki -- Colloquy: Schoenberg's Three piano pieces, opus 11. Tonal space and the "tonal problem" in Schoenberg's op. 11, no. 1 / Bruce Quaglia ; "Musical idea" and motivic structure in Schoenberg's opus 11, numbers 1 / Jack Boss ; Multiple modes of continuity and coherence in Schoenberg's Piano piece, opus 11, numbers1 / Richard Kurth ; Schoenberg's compositional philosophy, the Three piano pieces, opus 11, and his subsequent Volte-face / Áine Heneghan
Summary Musical Currents from the Left Coast, edited by Jack Boss and Bruce Quaglia, presents a timely snapshot of the analytical concerns and methodologies that have proliferated throughout the current moment in North American music theoretical circles. The repertoire spanned within this volume is extensive. It covers music from J.S. Bach through the late 19th Century and continues finally to the modernist, avant garde, and post-modernist repertoire of the past century. Previously neglected aspects ..
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Subject Musical analysis.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Musical analysis
Form Electronic book
Author Quaglia, Bruce W
ISBN 9781443812313
1443812315